32 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 



kreutzers a day, but when I offered him two florins 

 on condition he should come with us and help pitch 

 our next camp, he cheerfully accepted. 



A great resource to us both, and especially to 

 my wife, during our stay at Pasman was the society 

 of the family of the chief financial official of 

 Dalmatia, whose acquaintanceship we formed soon 

 after our arrival, and whose kindness I am glad to 

 be able here to acknowledge. They were doing 

 very much the same thing that we were (only their 

 house was of stone instead of canvas), to the huge 

 delight of a large family of young people. When 

 we spoke of departure, they very kindly gave us a 

 letter to the priest of Pakostane, a hamlet some 

 dozen miles further on, and a spot where we hoped 

 at once to avoid fever and yet to see something of 

 the mainland. 



Anxious to avoid the inevitable crowd Sunday 

 in a fresh camp would bring, we prolonged our stay 

 in Pasman over the next week-end, and arranged 

 to leave on the 20th of August. As I have 

 said, we had arranged for Carlo to accompany us. 

 We hired the boat of the owner of the cottage by 

 the pier, whose name I forget now, but whom we 

 styled the Syndic, principally on account of the 

 dignified manner he used to ride about (he was a 

 fine, portly man) on a very small donkey. At 

 loafing he ran Carlo a good second, but he did 

 occasionally do a little sponge-fishing. We bought 



